Game of Thrones! But, uh, you might also want to bring something fluffy as an antidote. Martin pulls no punches. It's awesome, but yeah.

... also you reminded me I hadn't read rachelmanija's LJ for a while, so I wandered over and was rewarded! I had wondered for a while why my friend and I once found Project Blue Rose in a bookstore in Santa Barbara. It was so random at the time, like the Internet had somehow strangely bled into the real world.